On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:37:55 -0400, Keyser Söze
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wrote:
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:20:11 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
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On 9/21/2017 11:09 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:49:28 -0400 (EDT), justan wrote:

"Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message:
On 9/21/2017 1:29 AM, RGrew176 wrote:
These hurricanes make me glad that I live in Michigan. We may get
remnants of hurricanes or tropical storms up here but no direct hits from a hurricane.

I would take a blizzard anytime instead of going through a hurricane.



Me too. Having had property in Florida that got hit with three
hurricanes in 14 months was enough for me.


Irma was a doosie. We didn't realize how bad until we watched the
news. There are still locations wher the flood waters haven't
crested yet.

The thing that made that bad was we had just had a similar rain event
a week earlier from a no name storm while Harvey was going on that
they say was unrelated. I measured 12" of rain then and before all of
that was gone, Irma dropped another 12.5" of rain on waterlogged soil.
I have not seen a low tide in my canal for almost a month and we have
had similar situations in low lying communities all over the county.
Island Park, across the canal from my father in law still has standing
water in the roads.
Fortunately for me, we are relatively high here, in the Florida sense
of the word and we did not have the problem. The perimeter road dammed
up water in the center of my community but everyone's house is higher
than the road so it was just a soggy front yard for them and nobody
was trapped by high water.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Irma/Tract%20A%20flooding.jpg
This is a peek at what it looked like from my front porch on the lee
side of the house.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Irma/Front%20yard%20eye.avi



Yuck. You were relatively fortunate that you didn't have more damage to
your house and property. Great video.


We are protected from easterly winds by a 10' high berm behind the
house. With the trees on top of that it is more like a 25' berm but
most of those trees are next door in the vacant lot now. That used to
be the run up to a trestle across the Estero River that the Seaboard
Railroad used up until WWII. It was gone in the 44 aerial photo.
It is hard to get the scope of that pile from the picture.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Irma/Stick%20pile.jpg



Great video...sheesh. Looks strong enough to knock you over.

I also have an unedited 40 minute video I shot out the back door, into
the wind but I really need to crop it down a bit. I just have not had
time to screw with it or even watch it all the way through. I set a
waterproof camera up and let it run. You should be able to see the 3
screen panels on that side blow out. I never really saw it happen, we
just looked over and said, "lost another one".

The news said they were seeing 120 MPH sustained and 130 gusts but I
think that was more like 80-90 at street level. It was still pretty
exciting. I stayed in the relative safety of the porch where I was
sheltered from the wind. (On the lee side of the house)
There was lots of stuff flying around.,
As Ron White says "It is not THAT the wind is blowing, it is WHAT the
wind is blowing". ;-)